Open URL instead of file

[hammerstein]

Don't know what I'm doing wrong, easy enough to open a file, but to open remote file (i.e. url online) is not working for me. Here's what I have to open file, but it doesn't remember last folder... I want also, option to open remote file from internet:

-- Display a File Browse Dialog, and then play the video that they select

-- Pick a nice default folder to start the browsing in (My Documents)
myfolder = Shell.GetFolder(SHF_MYDOCUMENTS);

-- Show the file browse dialog
tFiles = Dialog.FileBrowse(true, "Load Video", myfolder, "Video Files (*.mpg;*.mpeg)|*.mpg;*.mpeg|MPG (*.mpg)|*.mpg|MPEG (*.mpeg)|*.mpeg|","", "", false, true);

-- Only load the video if they did not press Cancel
if tFiles[1] ~= "CANCEL" then
-- make sure the Video object is visible before trying to load a video
Video.SetVisible("Video1", true);

-- Load the video File
Video.Load("Video1", tFiles[1]);

-- Play the video
Video.Play("Video1");

-- Adjust the Play/Pause button text
Button.SetText("pause", "PAUSE");
end


Any help will be appreciated, thanx much.

[Intrigued]

Open a link online that is a video link?

If so, try something like this:

Video.Load("Video1", "ftp://ftp.tek.com/tv/test/streams/Element/MPEG-Video/525/100b_015.m2v", true, false)

[Intrigued]

Here is a code (sample) chunk for the other setback (save the path chosen to load to that path again):

-- Display a File Browse Dialog, and then play the video that they select
-- Pick a nice default folder to start the browsing in (My Documents)
[B]if tFiles ~= nil then
	-- Show the file browse dialog
	tFiles = Dialog.FileBrowse(true, "Load Video", myfolder, "Video Files (*.mpg;*.mpeg)|*.mpg;*.mpeg|MPG (*.mpg)|*.mpg|MPEG (*.mpeg)|*.mpeg|","", "", false, true);
else
	myfolder = Shell.GetFolder(SHF_MYDOCUMENTS);
		tFiles = Dialog.FileBrowse(true, "Load Video", myfolder, "Video Files (*.mpg;*.mpeg)|*.mpg;*.mpeg|MPG (*.mpg)|*.mpg|MPEG (*.mpeg)|*.mpeg|","", "", false, true);
end[/B]

-- Only load the video if they did not press Cancel
if tFiles[1] ~= "CANCEL" then
-- make sure the Video object is visible before trying to load a video
Video.SetVisible("Video1", true);

-- Load the video File
Video.Load("Video1", tFiles[1]);

-- Play the video
Video.Play("Video1");

-- Adjust the Play/Pause button text
Button.SetText("pause", "PAUSE");
end

[B]myfolder = tFiles[1];[/b]

[hammerstein]

Need more please...

Intrigued. thanx for the help, but the remember last folder opened, only works while video player is running. Once program is closed and reopened, it goes back to the My Documents folder, I want it to where next time program is ran, it will remember last folder open if possible.

The other problem, opening a remote video, i.e. from internet stream, e.g. http://www.mysite.com/video/xyz.mpg , it didn't work. Sorry to ask for so much, I don't know how something so simple has puzzled me such.

Thanx for any and all help.

[JimS]

To remember a ‘last file path’ the next time you run the program, you’ll need to write it down somewhere. You could use a text file, an .ini file, or registry key, as the place to write your path info down.

Easiest way to do what you want, is to check out the actions Application.SaveValue and Application.GetValue



.